skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best Speech-to-text API with speaker diarization?
Whisper does not offer speaker diarization so we're looking to migrate to another API. We're having trouble finding the same quality as Whisper but with speaker diarization.

So far, we tried Google's Speech-to-text and Azure's speech to text, but both are less accurate and struggle with custom phrases.

We're working with large audio files (>30 minutes, >25 MB), but we can change how we parse up the files and the file types. All of our files are in Google Cloud Storage right now.

Curious if anyone has recommendations?
Yeah bollards right in the middle of the cycle path are unfortunately common around here.
As Americans, we’re constantly told, “Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.” The narrative is always that they’re “our greatest ally” because we share similar values to them. Well, one of our values—in fact, a constitutionally protected one—is press freedom. Al Jazeera has been the only media/news outlet in Israel that offered the Palestinian perspective and they’ve shut it down. As a rule, you’re probably not the good guys when your tactic for winning the information war is censoring the other side—especially while you’re being accused by millions across the world of committing a genocide (whether you agree with that characterization or not).
On what basis in Al Jazeera a fake news outlet?
I'm not part of such discussions so I'm afraid I have no idea!
similar to how you can make plugins for data sources, you can make plugins for data sinks, like write over modbus, or POST to http API or, publish to some kind of MQTT broker, etc.

since IoT devices have limited storage, usually the metrics are dumped into another system like Prometheus. but that Prometheus data source used plotting cannot be used to control the device, which will have another endpoint and another API, so we need some kind of concept of data sinks. at least that's my idea right now, allow data links configured in the panels to poke some "data sink" with values that are available in the DataFrame or custom-entered into the UI, like we do with traceID for Exemplars, etc.
Doesn't have to be a takeover. If I'm a state actor I'll maintain a few projects specifically so I can hide backdoors in them. When/if one gets popular and I decide to backdoor them I'll claim it was a social engineering takeover.
There's a fork of ESPHome called LibreTiny that runs on some of the more recent Tuya devices, but it requires flashing it using a serial adapter and soldering to various pads unless you have a jig to do it.

I just decided to go all in on Zigbee devices instead (except for the Shelly Plus 1's I have).
Any good links about fiasco?
This poem captures some of the spirit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden
Cultural differences exist. For example, colors have different meanings in different cultures:

https://blog.grio.com/2020/06/uxui-design-across-cultures-us...

Ethnicity is then being used as a proxy for culture, even though it's a bad one, because it's a visible one.

It's basically starting from the premise that cultural diversity is valuable and then applying Goodhart's Law to the thing most easily measured. Whereas traditional racism is more like starting from the premise that cultural homogeneity is valuable and then applying Goodhart's Law to the thing most easily measured. It's applying the same fallacy to the opposite premise, which is an error regardless of which premise is correct.
Cowardice selected for by ejecting the non cowards through filters that makes them not hired at these places
The BBC doesn't fit my definition as it's run by a democracy with a high degree of human rights and civilian freedoms.

And journalism can be technically right while still showing a very one sided view.

Not that I'm pro ban, just saying that there's a good reason to be vigilant when it comes to their news coverage and make sure it's not you're only source.
> Let's say they just don't care, since there are no repercussions.

I think that's a fair statement, but also a far cry from "killing journalists for sport". These kind of exaggerated claims aren't helpful.
I thought i heard Chris Hedges claim that, but it looks like YouTube removed them and it wasn't necessarily from the sanctions.
Discussion [0] (228 points, 13 hour ago, 225 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40263289
That's great that you are considering this more now.

But the xy story taught us, that every contributor is dangerous, the most dangerous ones are probably the most helpful and most skilled contributors. If someone barely get's a PR accepted, they probably lack the skills to add a sophisticated backdoor.

Another thing that was not talked about a lot: There are many ways to compromise existing maintainers. Compromising people is the core competency of intelligence, happens all the time, and most cases probably never come to public knowledge.
Ok thanks! let's go with 1974 and maybe someone else can refine it.
Wow, that's a really disgustingly elitist take. Pretty much everything wrong with some types of well-off/wealthy people is summed up in your comment.

While I haven't been to a Red Lobster since I was a kid, that was always a treat back then, and it was one of the nicest places my parents could afford to take us on occasion.
I feel obligated to mention that I run Arch and have done for a long time :).

About the upstart thing... even the creator of Upstart acknowledged that systemd's design is more sound -- on Canonical's bug tracker no less -- and kudos to him for doing that. TL;DR: Upstart was essentially callback hell in a different form.

... but to GP: my point wasn't really about when projects were started per se, but they should have been ended much sooner than they were. I absolutely support innovation around the platform, but maybe we shouldn't be too stubborn.
> Hamas was seen by even Israel as better than anarchy.

Better then anarchy or better than peace? There is some people on both sides of this conflict which are happy to see it radicalized and I think those people all benefits from the other being strong on the other side.
Ah yes, the poor and huddled masses. Those useless ones.

/s
Backdoor attempts won't be that obvious. The xz incident just had a random unaffiliated burner account and nothing of any clear national origin.
> …in one case when the person moved on to the next interview, they couldn’t answer questions about the task. “Not only have they wasted their time, but they wasted my time,” says the recruiter. “It’s really frustrating.”

I’m on the prospective employee’s side here. If I had to do a complex task for every application I’d be driven mad. That’s a waste of the applicant’s time.

Plus, the employee you should want to hire is the employee that can do tasks in the most creative low effort way. Why should I hire the employee who takes 8 hours to grind through a task when the employee who uses ChatGPT to bust it out in 1 hour gets the same correct output?

Company recruiters have had the leg up on applicants for years with ATS systems. I’m glad the applicants have flipped the script and forced the recruiters to actually do work to find good candidates.
That's what struck me as well. It's extremely important for such positions to be clear and open about their position and not masking their reality. You'll often find marketing speak internally between levels which masks truth and then hinders actual strategic moves. In this context CTO would've said they're not that far off, if only this and that.. but no, he fessed up and CEO also understood; raw awareness.
Anyone with a brain and sense of dignity will feel like racism is bad and unfair. Experiencing negative racism is enraging and depressing. Experiencing positive racism instantly gives you impostor syndrome and a sense of dehumanization.

The only systems that aren't racist are those that strive to be colorblind (in the sense that we're colorblind to eye or hair color).
> It's not an interview if a spokesman is allowed to say whatever they like without being challenged.

This describes most interviews I've seen with Israeli government officials in the American press, although it's starting to change over the last few months.
Leaving that question aside, I believe there's a difference between that, and reporting, uncensored, that somebody else did. Presumably Israel is happy for the "right" people to report it, with the appropriate condemnation and editing. What that ends up amounting to is compelled speech. I know that's not quite the issue you're responding to, but I do believe that free speech requires the right to report that somebody said something that might be illegal itself, and that free speech also requires that you not be compelled to rebuke it with the appropriate government talking points to do so.
Both India and China produce their own fascistic propaganda supporting Russia. I wouldn't blame the EU for banning the Global Times.
Unix/Berkeley vs Lisp/Mit.
Ref: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross_Site_Sc...
It's built-in to ESPHome now, actually!
My approach whenever DEI comes up now is to not express a position or opinion supporting or opposing DEI itself but to simply cite statute and recent case law.

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (Section 703):

>"It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer -

(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or

(2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin."

Duvall v. Novant Health, Inc.

>"To be clear, employers may, if they so choose, utilize D&I-type programs. What they cannot do is take adverse employment actions against employees based on their race or gender to implement such a program."

Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which applied specifically to higher educational institutions, gives a very good indication as to how SCOTUS is likely to rule when a case involving private employment inevitably lands on its docket in the near future. Taking race into account when making employment decisions will be prohibited. Full stop. That includes setting race based targets/quotas, tying bonuses to their achievement, and establishing set aside jobs. What will likely be permissible will be efforts to expand candidate pools and training initiatives that focus on eliminating biases.
> were literally showing videos demanding further uprising against Israel across the region directly from Hamas.

If you mean that they were covering such demands and showing clips in which they are made etc. - what's the problem with that?

> for being a security risk.

goes to show they were doing some decent journalistic work then. Not that Al-Jazeera is saintly, or unbiased, or treats all subjects fairly etc. (they are under the indirect control of the Qatari government after all) - but they certainly offer critically important coverage of what's happening in Palestine in general, and Gaza in particular, which is very hard to get elsewhere.

> Why would you allow that to continue in your country?

If by "you", you mean a semi-totalitarian state which wants to silence coverage of its crimes and hide the horrors of its actions from the world and from its residents, then - you're right, you definitely wouldn't want it to continue operating.
Not going to quote the whole thing, but yes hard agree. Contrasting this factual opinion with the opinions in the “sell TikTok” hn threads is quite a delta.
Friend, I read the comment that you’re replying to that if hostile governments wanted to backdoor our software supply-chains, it wouldn’t cost that much to corrupt an open source maintainer.

Whereas, if it was the norm for well used OS projects to be sponsored, it’s far less likely to be tempted by relatively small bribes.
Yes this is definitely a part of it. And another part is the usual underlying question about how well the candidate understands and is prepared for the specific job they are entering. Different universities have different kinds of diversity challenges: some have a lot of working students who aren’t in the traditional student age range, some have a disproportionately large number of deaf students due to the presence of a good program there, some have large numbers of students for whom English is a second language, etc. Each of these requires different skill sets and interests on the part of the teacher. And a DEI statement can be a way to show/evaluate how seriously the candidate is considering the actual on-the-ground demographics of the institution and the challenges it poses, as well as how the institution is trying the change demographics (whether for reasons of market demands or principle).
"tailgating" at a red light or in a parking lot might mean "following the car in front of you closely at low speed", and as such the driver might not realize there is an automatic bollard there. this pleases people because schadenfreude
Where did I read the hostage deal fell apart because Hamas refused to abide by the terms? It was all over the news when it happened.

It started with delays:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67531477

Then, refusal (with "between the lines" that Hamas wasn't in control of the hostages, and it was more that Hamas "leaders" weren't actually in control of the hostages than a case of refusing a deal)

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/talks-to-release-hosta...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/hostage-negotiat...

I don't understand how you can say these things.

"Hamas then (in response to hostage negotiations) launched rocket attacks onto Israel ... Netanyahu has been staunchly opposed to any more ceasefire and hostage negotiations"

I mean you're not reasonable. Hamas, quite literally, blew up negotiations, again and again and again and again. They killed, massacred, exploded, destroyed, WHATEVER they could, every attempt at negotiations since the month they were created, almost 5 decades back. Blowing up negotiations with massacres is literally the reason they exist, initially the Oslo accords. Which means I will need A LOT of VERY DIRECT AND CLEAR evidence before I will even consider it was the Israeli side that ended negotiations.
There is a comment from "adolph" parallel to yours with footnotes. But I remember the event well (though it was 30 years ago) as the difficulty for programmers was given as the justification for the law (this was a change in collation).

This particularly irked me as unicode was a few years old at this point, and while not really adopted yet, was clearly the future.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166912

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40196068

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199153
Indeed. I din't know the term bollard applied to anything other than large mooring cleats. TIL.
As a total outlier, RT was paying the cable/sat systems to be carried in US/Canada, instead of the other way around.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/rts-purchase-of-cana...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/rt-channels-unique-carriage-dea...

I wonder if other countries were the same.
Yes, and that commenter sounds like a snobby elitist douchebag.

I know we're not supposed to go for the ad hominem, but I'm honestly not sure that comment warrants anything better.
I would argue that the status quo is already expensive and ugly. Shouldn't any aesthetic claim be relative to the beauty of the parking lot itself, or of the carnage left by a vehicle after striking a pedestrian?
> There is no such a thing as cultural Marxism. That's a conspiracy theory the nazis first created.

There is such a thing as "cultural Marxism", and it is not a conspiracy theory invented by the Nazis or anyone else.

Consider for example the 1981 book by academic Richard Weiner, "Cultural Marxism and Political Sociology" [0] – it discusses "cultural Marxism" as a real thing, in a positive light, and it is a real academic book, not some conspiracy theory hoax. Or similarly consider Dennis L. Dworkin's 1997 book "Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies" [1] – not some conspiratorial tome, it was published by Duke University Press. Or American philosopher Frederic Jameson's 2007 book "Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism" [2] – also published by Duke University Press, and not a conspiratorial work either

Cultural Marxism is a real movement in post-war Marxism and academia. To what extent it influenced movements such as BLM is a question about which reasonable people can disagree. But its existence is not a conspiracy theory.

No doubt some of the more extreme claims uninformed people have made about it do venture into the realms of conspiracy theory. But it would be wrong to assume that everyone who makes a claim like "cultural Marxism influenced BLM" is using the phrase "cultural Marxism" in such a sense. You'd have to investigate what they actually mean by it.

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=4G0XAAAAIAAJ

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=dY1Cgg8NV64C

[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=pY69yJnmEAYC
> which turned out to be a Hamas missile

Debunked: https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/israeli-disi...

IDF has bombed the entirety of Gaza health infrastructure by now. It's odd they don't want us to believe they would be capable to bomb this particular hospital when they destroyed every single other one.
It doesn't need to be 100% reliable. It just needs to be better than current bollards - which are perhaps only ~10% effective since many accidents happen where there is no bollard to prevent a bystander being killed.
Initially this is hard but then you soon realise that you are never buying processed food ever again and everything is a single ingredient food. There may be one or two exceptions and often tinned things have a preservative or an acidity regulator in there too.

What this means is that there is no puzzling over food labels. If you are buying carrots then they are just carrots.

Initially this seems a bit extreme as there seems to be nothing in the supermarket to buy. On my most recent trip I saw some of my former 'friends' including what was once my favourite frozen pizza. There was nothing toxic about it, once you have embraced home cooking, then nothing processed or ready made is satisfactory. In the case of the pizza, my home made pizza will be in a different league of taste, it might not be to everyone's liking but, for me, it will be like being on a drug high. I can't get that buzz from store bought food and it certainly does not list 'natural opiates released per bite' on the nutrition labels.

When you seriously get into buying the vegetables, there is always so much that you have not bought or cooked with before. These things have always been there and they are not weird, but, for some reason you have not decided to cook with them in new and exciting ways. Processed meals mean you don't have to.

Then you start mixing in herbs and all of the nutrition labels are left far, far behind. They have different meaning with processed food to real food made with single ingredient items, most of which are vegetables. Carbohydrates also shift from the cheap ones in processed food to being much better quality and best described as 'nutrient rich fibre'.
Time and tide: pendulum clocks and gravity tides
"Since pendulum clocks were, until the 1940s, the best timekeepers available, there has been interest in seeing if tidal effects could be observed in the best performing examples of these clocks."

Edit: Sry, should be [2020].
My assumptions would be:

They will release fewer new features, products and software.

They will EOL 'legacy' software/products earlier, and maybe even break backwards compatibility, if they think it may be a too large security risk.

Working at Microsoft will be less about 'innovation' and more about 'maintenance'.
10% is overwhelming complexity and 90% is Nvidia's profit margin.
Of course; how else were they going to make the bomb without a bunch of Genius Physics Utilizers?
Maybe not for whole EU, but I read it was banned in France, and I can confirm I cannot reach it now (from France).
DEI is a lot like a headless religion that nobody's asked for. It's headless because instead of talking about spirit or similar high matters, it says "you are your body" and proceeds to divide people based on a few visible traits such as skin color. This quasi-religion doesn't talk about what we have in common. Instead it's fixated on superficial traits that make us different. When DEI got support among the rich and they pushed it down to the people, it obviously created resentment. Nobody likes when you're forced to say things you don't believe in and find disgusting.

I do admit that DEI has some goodwill in it, in particular the idea that our society doesn't have to be a wolf-eats-wolf "meritocracy", but I'm afraid that the goodwill has been skillfully perverted.
Sure, but the computer is a tool designed to be malleable and adapt to the human. This kind of grunt work (adapting to humans' models of collation) is exactly the kind of task that should be handed off to machines.
Are you asking for evidence that LLM’s can be used to write emails and chat messages?
The trouble is that we’re rarely “building sidewalks and roads” in a large empty space. Either there is already a road there, or there’s other immovable constraints like buildings and landmarks. If you’ve got some large empty space, then sure you can build a safe road and sidewalk. But the reality is that’s rarely possible, especially in urban areas that were originally planned in the horse and buggy era. The roads in the UK are narrow, and there’s limited parking space, so people park half on the sidewalk and make the road even narrower.
I wonder if this is related to his recent tweets about the pro-Palestine student protests.
I had to work 3 years to buy a computer in 2001 and in the mean time I would volunteer to do networking for internet cafes to get a few minutes of coding time after hours. When I finally bought a computer, my parents only allowed me to touch it for 24 hours each weekend and using that slow dial-up internet connection. I made those 24 hrs count. After school, I would read every programming book in the bookstore, plan and design and UX my projects, so by the time my 24 hours rolled in, I could just build. By the time I had finished college, I could tell you all the browser mis-behaviors your code would trigger in IE and others, by just reading the code.

The 10X+ developers got there by iterating so many times, they know how to skip the traps. The more layers of abstraction pile up on top of fundamental systems the more variably productive new developers become by default, because they become attached to abstractions that can and do change, and because the permutations of misguided possibilities on top of flawed foundations become so abundant that a single person can't strip through the noise. That's why additional abstraction and libraries that automatically update on top of your existing code are a recipe for short-lived work and thus a quick to degrade portfolio. Understandable code that doesn't move under your feet is key, because you will forget what you did way before what you did becomes outdated.
I think you should be skeptical of the official state claims of war aims. It seems quite apparent that Israel's actions are working towards the goal of ethnic cleansing and land conquest.
There's a lot of work that is neither Windows software nor web. And much (most?) of that runs on Linux.